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Language Identification Using Spectral and Prosodic Features

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This chapter provides an overview of existing language identification systems. Existing language-specific features applied for LID study have been highlighted. The reasons for attraction towards developing implicit LID systems are explained and finally the motivation for the present work has been discussed.

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Rao, K.S., Reddy, V.R., Maity, S. (2015). Literature Review. In: Language Identification Using Spectral and Prosodic Features. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17163-0_2

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